Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Wright

We have always strived for excellence with our products, so it's satisfying to be involved with an organization that rewards excellence in its industry.

Juergen Schrempp

We have what we need. The name of the game now is operational excellence. The group is structured as it will be in the long term.

Barbara Williams

We are really proud to be part of this fabulous industry and to be part of the celebration which showcases excellence in the industry.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bill Rodgers

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Deepak Chopra

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Barack Obama

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

Samuel Butler

A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.

Michael Johnson

They don't give you gold medals for beating somebody. They give you gold medals for beating everybody.

Alan Cohen

Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover that the gold we sought, we already are.

John Brandon

When you see gold laying on the ocean floor, it looks just like this. It's so shiny and beautiful.

Aerin Lauder

I've always liked simple. Growing up, I wore corduroys and Lacoste shirts, Maraolo flats, and maybe one gold bracelet.

Fernando Mateo

We're not doing this because he was the first Hispanic player to have 3,000 hits, or because he was a 12-time Gold Glove winner or 12-time All-Star. We're doing it because of the way he lived his life and the way he died.

Geoff Blum

Those are golden opportunities. A strikeout right there would have been better than what I did.

Betty White

I think that a show that is as successful as 'The Golden Girls' is a once-in-a-lifetime thing. If you don't feel proud to be part of a show that has that kind of track record, then shame on you, because that's a privilege.

Clive Sinclair

The summer of 1976 was so hot that bars of chocolate melted on the shelves before confectioners could sell them.

Bill Burr

You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that.

Woody Harrelson

When you would go out and hang with the folks in the bars or wherever you meet them, they were just so kind and warm,

Lisa Snowdon

Sex keeps me in shape. I don't diet, I eat what I like. I love Mars bars and I smoke and drink. But I love running off in the middle of the day to make love. It really burns up calories.

Willie Nelson

When I was about 12, I had my first paying gig - 8 dollars to play rhythm guitar in a polka band. Pretty soon, I ended up playing in all the bars within driving distance of Abbott, Texas.

Pim Fortuyn

was not so filled with rancor that I have to see him behind bars for the rest of his life.

Bryan Whitman

We are looking at whether or not a formal instruction that bars the prosecution from offering this type of evidence is necessary.

Judy Woodruff

The rap on Dean is that the Burlington Birkenstock crowd, people who put Dean signs in bars called the Red Square, can't take their man to the White House, that he's just too far left.

Jim Allchin

We could have just gone ahead, but I didn't think it was the right thing to do. We're setting stringent quality bars on what we do.